Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Jul 2017 19:05:11 +0200 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH v1 00/11] Create fast idle path for short idle periods |
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On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 09:37:57AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> that's just a matter of fixing the C1 and later thresholds to line up right. > shrug that's the most trivial thing to do, it's a number in a table.
Well, they represent a physical measure, namely the break-even-time. If you go muck with them you don't have anything left. This is tinkering of the worst possible kind.
Fix the estimator if you want behavioural changes.
> some distros do those tunings anyway when they don't like the upstream tunings
*shudder*
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